Post-vacation nightmare

[Gibson486]

You're living in a bubble. I've worked in multiple universities and I can tell you that many professors and department heads are functional illiterates. Corporations are even worse. The problem seems to be that everyone takes short cuts even if they know better and communication is garbled or even lost because the 'short cuts' have no standard. You know, as in written language? It's depressing, demoralizing and, unprofessional.

Really? Because at my last job, whenever I made a grammar error, they were on me like white on rice. Maybe that is why I hated it so much. As for a university setting, they are in their own world. I would not go as far as to say that "professors and department heads are functional illiterates" though.

 

[Gibson486]

It was an AMC theater next to Boston Commons

We watched Horrible Bosses

I have went to that theater numerous times. I have not caught lice yet. not saying it is not possible, however. I am thinking it's from the rental car.

 

[Gibson486]

Shouldn't that be due not do?

yeah, you're correct.

 

[NuclearNed]

I have went to that theater numerous times. I have not caught lice yet. not saying it is not possible, however. I am thinking it's from the rental car.

completely possible. The rental car was filthy when we picked it up... it was obvious they hadn't vacuumed it since the previous customer.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Really? Because at my last job, whenever I made a grammar error, they were on me like white on rice. Maybe that is why I hated it so much. As for a university setting, they are in their own world. I would not go as far as to say that "professors and department heads are functional illiterates" though.

The corporate world is the worst. It gives me a physical pain in my gut every time I see official contracts, billing and, advertisements to the public that are misspelled, poorly worded or, filled with acronyms not defined.

You left out my qualifier "many." I've seen multiple memos, emails and, bureaucratic communiques that not only have poor grammar and spelling but, are so poorly crafted that intent cannot be inferred from context. It happened so often, kinda like lice in Texas, that it "was no big deal."

 

[gorcorps]

completely possible. The rental car was filthy when we picked it up... it was obvious they hadn't vacuumed it since the previous customer.

I would have guessed theater, with the thought that they don't vaccum theater seats in between guests when they usually do in cars. But if you don't think they vaccumed the car either then there's that.

 

[Gibson486]

The corporate world is the worst. It gives me a physical pain in my gut every time I see official contracts, billing and, advertisements to the public that are misspelled, poorly worded or, filled with acronyms not defined.

You left out my qualifier "many." I've seen multiple memos, emails and, bureaucratic communiques that not only have poor grammar and spelling but, are so poorly crafted that intent cannot be inferred from context. It happened so often, kinda like lice in Texas, that it "was no big deal."

I see, you are talking about public work....

The firm I used to work for actually was very anal about spelling errors and such on documents. However, now that I think about it, lots of contractors and competitors looked like they did not even use spell check. You can tell which firms are not used to dealing with MA sub-bid laws just by the amount of errors in a document.

 

[NuclearNed]

I would have guessed theater, with the thought that they don't vaccum theater seats in between guests when they usually do in cars. But if you don't think they vaccumed the car either then there's that.

We read that lice can't live without a host for very long, so we reasoned that the theater would be the most likely place since someone would have been in the seat fairly soon before my wife. The car had food & black hair all over the seats, but we don't really know how recently it had been used, so we figured it was less likely the source.

 

[Gibson486]

We read that lice can't live without a host for very long, so we reasoned that the theater would be the most likely place since someone would have been in the seat fairly soon before my wife. The car had food & black hair all over the seats, but we don't really know how recently it had been used, so we figured it was less likely the source.

ewwww...


which rental company was this?

 

[NuclearNed]

ewwww...


which rental company was this?

Thrifty at the airport